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Jul 10, 2020 at 9:52 AM
The Savannah Jazz Festival was recently awarded a Resiliency Grant by the Georgia Council for the Arts, a division of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, the organization announced this week.
The grants are funded through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. As a state arts agency, the Georgia Council for the Arts was designated to distribute these grant funds from the National Endowment for the Arts to help sustain Georgia’s nonprofit arts sector.
“We at Savannah Jazz are so grateful to receive the Georgia Council for the Arts’ Resiliency Grant during these times of great need for the arts in America. Our offices have been closed for the most part because we have not been able to raise funds for many months and have lost several corporate sponsors,” said interim Executive Director Paula Fogarty.
“The grant will help us fund staff and overhead to produce our ambitious Savannah-Safe Jazz Festival 2020, educational programs, monthly concerts, and continue work on the upcoming Savannah Jazz History and Hall of Fame Exhibit,” she said.
More than 100 organizations submitted applications for the grant program, requesting a total of $1.78 million.